"White House Down," the latest conflagration from that master blaster Roland Emmerich, is as demented and entertaining as promised, and a little less idiotic than feared.
Anonymous, the hacking collective, says it has struck at official Israel Web sites, and the Israeli authorities themselves say that a staggering 44 million hacking attempts have been made since the latest conflagration began last Wednesday.
The latest conflagration exploded just as a consortium of oil companies including Exxon was completing investment decisions on a huge new field just offshore in the Caspian Sea, called Kashagan.
Another Kong, this one a 30-foot, animatronic gorilla featured in the Universal City tour, went up in flames this week, along with various sets, film prints, audio recording and videotape storage vaults, as Universal Studios suffered its latest conflagration.
Most everyone has focused on the retraction of the Wharton student whose Internet posting ignited the Mets' latest conflagration, saying the reversal showed that Steve Phillips overreacted when he went to Pittsburgh to confront Bobby Valentine.
Many media commentators, some London-based, some local, who spend little time on the ground in places like the Lower Newtownards Road or Short Strand, bought into the line that this latest conflagration was the result of spontaneous working class loyalist anger.
